. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Mauch 30, 1922 The Florists^ Review 63 CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE SHOW. Flowers the Big Feature. "Oh, is this going to be a flower showf" This interrogation, simul- taneously chorused by a group of young lieojile entering the scene of Chicago's West Town Exposition Monday night, March 27, shows that the flower section .)f the local loyalty exposition is acconi- ijlishing its purpose—interesting the 'pul>lic in flowers. As one enters the Second Infantry armory, at Madison street, the iniilding in which the local loyalty show is being hel
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Mauch 30, 1922 The Florists^ Review 63 CHICAGO'S WEST SIDE SHOW. Flowers the Big Feature. "Oh, is this going to be a flower showf" This interrogation, simul- taneously chorused by a group of young lieojile entering the scene of Chicago's West Town Exposition Monday night, March 27, shows that the flower section .)f the local loyalty exposition is acconi- ijlishing its purpose—interesting the 'pul>lic in flowers. As one enters the Second Infantry armory, at Madison street, the iniilding in which the local loyalty show is being held, the first thing to meet tlie eye is a good-sized electric "Say It uith Flowers" sign that gleams on the iiid of an arbor, witliin whose length all tiie exhibits are placed, with the ex- (?( ]itions of the disjibays of 11. N. Bruns, lu the left, and Schiller's, to the right (if the arbor. night under the electric sign is a neat poster bearing the name of Frank ()(>clislin. Mr. Oechslin's exhibit is I'crtainly "a sight for sore eyes," and its coinjirchensivencss is a constant delight to the eyes that read each sign on ev(>ry plant and llowcr. Among other plants and flow- ers Mr. Oechslin is showing Ficus .l.'istica, Ficus i)andurata. Spiraea Glad- stone, Azalea Van der Cruyssen, Azalea Ilcxe, Sansevieria zeylanica, Cibotium Schiedei, Couronne d'Or tulips, Dra- cTna Massangeana, Primula obconica, I'olypodiunis, Nephrolepis Whifmanli, cinerarias, roses, sweet peas, jonquils, daisies, ferns, and many others. A i)art of Mr. Oechslin's dis[)l!iy is grouped about a jiretty fountain that has been furnished for the occasion by the A. L. Kandall Co. The most admired features of the dis- play i)y Peter Pearson, Chicago, are the tuli]is, although he is .'ilso showing a till!' lot of ciner.'irias, sttdlata among tlifiii, and hydrangeas, along with other I'lants. He showed ii brand-new tulip, wliich has been christened "; This is ,a bi-flowerin
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